Translate Spanish Video to English

What you get back

• An English transcript next to the original Spanish transcript, plus a timestamped version.
• English subtitles as SRT and VTT files.
• With Full translation output on: an English voice track in which each person (up to 8) speaks in a copy of their own voice, the translated audio as M4A, and an MP4 that keeps your original picture, music and effects.
• Spanish is detected automatically. The tool above is already set to English, so you only drop in the file.

Spanish to English at a glance

Spanish to English typically shortens the text, so the English voice fits easily inside the original timing. All major Spanish accents transcribe well, which gives the translation a strong starting point.

This direction is common for researchers, journalists and companies reviewing Spanish-language interviews, focus groups and customer calls. If you only need to understand the content, a translated English transcript at 1 credit per minute is often all you need.

Regional slang and fast colloquial speech can produce literal translations. For quotes you'll publish, compare the English line with the Spanish transcript, which is delivered alongside it.

Spanglish and US Spanish

Spanish recorded in the United States often switches into English mid-sentence: "vamos a hacer el checkout", "mi manager me dijo". The English words pass straight through to the English translation, so code-switched speech usually translates cleanly. Anglicisms that have become Spanish words ("parquear", "lonche") are rarer in the training data of translation models and can come out oddly, so read those lines.

Surnames, titles and forms of address

Spanish speakers often carry two surnames, and the first is the main family name: Gabriel García Márquez is known as García Márquez. English-language transcripts and captions sometimes drop that first surname and keep only the second. Titles are used more in Latin America than in English: "licenciado", "ingeniero" and "doctora" before a name, "don" and "doña" for respected elders. Translations may keep them, translate them or drop them; pick one style for your audience and make the subtitles consistent.

Tú, usted and vos all become "you", so formality disappears in English. In a customer or patient conversation, that's usually fine.

Figures written the other way

Spain and much of South America write 1.500,50 where English writes 1,500.50. Translation normally converts the format, but check prices and statistics against the Spanish transcript. The bigger trap is "billón": in Spanish it means a million million, so "un billón de pesos" is a trillion in English. "Mil millones" is the Spanish for a billion. Financial, government and economics videos are where this matters most; the guide to numbers in transcripts has a checking method.

When the English dub has time to spare

English usually needs fewer syllables than Spanish, so the English voice fits inside the original timing without speeding up. Each line is placed where the Spanish line was spoken, and shorter English leaves small pauses, which sound natural in conversation and interviews. Each person is dubbed in a copy of their own voice, up to 8 people, so interviewer and guest stay distinct. Music and effects are kept under the new voice by AI vocal separation; sung lyrics are removed along with the speech.

Who translates Spanish video into English

Creators

Mexican, Colombian, Argentine and Spanish channels starting an English channel or adding English subtitles

US organisations

Schools, clinics and nonprofits sharing testimonials and community meetings with English-speaking boards and donors

Journalists and researchers

Interviews and field recordings, where the English transcript is the working document

Companies

Sales calls, training and town halls from teams in Latin America and Spain

For quotes you will publish, compare the English with the Spanish transcript; translating foreign footage for journalism explains how to verify them.

Costed examples

Cost: 1,650 credits ($1.65) for the English dub, which includes the subtitles and both transcripts, or 33 credits (3.3¢) for English subtitles and transcripts without a voice.

Cost: 750 credits (75¢) for the English dub, which includes the subtitles and both transcripts, or 15 credits (1.5¢) for English subtitles and transcripts without a voice.

Using the tool on this page

• The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
• Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
• You can download a translated video that keeps your music and effects, the translated audio as M4A, a transcript and subtitles (SRT and VTT). Every output, step and limit is explained on the video translator page.